The World Did Not Recognise Yah'shuah When He Came
John 1:9-14 reads,
1:9The
true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
1:10He
was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the
world didn’t recognize him. 1:11He
came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him. 1:12But as many as received him, to them he
gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name: 1:13who were born not of blood, nor of the will
of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 1:14The Word became flesh, and lived among us.
We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of
grace and truth.
Why didn't the world recognise Yah'shuah, the Word, when he came among them and lived among them? Was it because they were blind?
Do We Reject Yah'shuah's
Witness?
John 3:9-12 reads,
3:9Nicodemus
answered him, "How can these things be?"
3:10Jesus
answered him, "Are you the teacher of
Are we like Nicodemus in not understanding the things that Yah'shuah speaks? Do we, like Nicodemus, refuse to receive Yah'shuah's witness? Do we believe the earthly things that Yah'shuah speaks about?
What earthly things did Yah'shuah speak about?
Worship The Father In
Spirit And In Truth
John 4:19-24 reads,
4:19The
woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 4:20Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and
you Jews say that in
4:21Jesus
said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour
comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in
Do we believe Yah'shuah's words that true worshippers should now worship the
Father in spirit and in truth, without necessarily restricting their worship
from the geographical location of
Follow The Example Of The
Nobleman Who Believed Yah'shuah's Word
John 4:46-53 reads,
4:46Jesus
came therefore again to Cana of
4:49The
nobleman said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies." 4:50Jesus said to him, "Go
your way. Your son lives." The man believed the word that Jesus
spoke to him, and he went his way. 4:51As
he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, saying "Your
child lives!" 4:52So he
inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to
him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him." 4:53So the father knew that it was at that hour
in which Jesus said to him, "Your son lives."
He believed, as did his whole house.
Shouldn't we follow the example set for us by the nobleman, of believing the word that Yah'shuah speaks? Won't we also receive our request from Yah'shuah when we believe the word that he speaks, even as the nobleman received his request from Yah'shuah?
Believe Yahweh Through
Yah'shuah's Word
John 5:24 reads,
5:24"Most assuredly I tell you, he who hears my word, and
believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but
has passed out of death into life.
Do we believe Yah'shuah's word, the word Yahweh gave him to speak? Do we have eternal life abiding in us, on account of believing Yah'shuah's word?
Those Who Do Not Have
Yahweh's Word Living In Them
John 5:37-47 reads,
5:37The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You
have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form. 5:38You don’t have his
word living in you; for whom he sent, him you don’t believe.
5:39"You search the Scriptures, because you think that in
them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me. 5:40Yet you will not
come to me, that you may have life. 5:41I don’t receive glory from men. 5:42But I know you,
that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves. 5:43I have come in my
Father’s name, and you don’t receive me. If another comes in his own name, you
will receive him. 5:44How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and
you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?
5:45"Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There
is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope. 5:46For if you believed
Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me. 5:47But if you don’t
believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"
Isn't it the case that if we don't believe Yah'shuah, whom Yahweh sent, we do not have Yahweh the Father's word - Yah'shuah - living in us? Isn't it the case that only those who believe Yah'shuah have Yah'shuah living in them? Do we have Yah'shuah living in us? Do we believe Yah'shuah?
Seeking And Receiving Human
Glory Is An Impediment To Believing Yah'shuah
Isn't the seeking and receipt of human glory an impediment to believing Yah'shuah, as seen in 5:44? Shouldn't we follow Yah'shuah's example in forsaking the seeking and receipt of human glory? Shouldn't we follow Yah'shuah's example in seeking the glory that comes from the only Mighty One - Yahweh? Doesn't seeking the glory that comes from Yahweh facilitate our believing Yah'shuah, and thereby his living in us?
It Is Necessary To Believe
Moses' Writings In Order To Believe Yah'shuah's Words
Doesn't Yah'shuah show, in 5:46-47, that it is necessary to believe Moses' writings in order to believe his words? Do we, in deference to Yah'shuah's word, believe Moses' writings? Or do we, in deference to human beings who bestow their own glory, reject Moses' writings and therefore do not believe them? Shouldn't we seek Yahweh's glory and believe Moses' writings, thereby facilitating our believing Yah'shuah's words?
Yah'shuah's Words Are In
Harmony With Moses' Writings
Doesn't Yah'shuah imply that his words are in harmony with Moses' writings, for those who do not believe Moses' writings do not believe his words, and those who do believe Moses' writings believe his words? Shouldn't we believe Moses' writings rather than shun them as is the practice of many who purport to follow Yah'shuah's word but do not?
John 6:30-71 reads,
6:30They
said therefore to him, "What then do you do for a sign, that we may
see, and believe you? What work do you do? 6:31Our
fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, ‘He gave them bread
out of heaven to eat.’"
6:32Jesus
therefore said to them, "Most assuredly, I tell
you, it wasn’t Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives
you the true bread out of heaven. 6:33For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven,
and gives life to the world."
6:34They
said therefore to him, "Lord, always give us this bread."
6:35Jesus
said to them. "I am the bread of life. He who
comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be
thirsty. 6:36But I told you that you have seen me, and yet don’t believe. 6:37All those who the
Father gives me will come to me. Him who
comes to me I will in no way throw out. 6:38For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but
the will of him who sent me. 6:39This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has
given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day. 6:40This is the will of
the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him,
should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day."
6:41The
Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, "I am the bread which came down out of heaven."
6:42They said, "Isn’t this
Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he
say, ‘I have come down out of heaven?’"
6:43Therefore
Jesus answered them, "Don’t murmur among
yourselves. 6:44No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws
him, and I will raise him up in the last day. 6:45It is written in
the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears
from the Father, and has learned, comes to me. 6:46Not that any man has seen the Father, except he who is from
God. He has seen the Father. 6:47Most assuredly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal
life. 6:48I am the bread of life. 6:49Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 6:50This is the bread
which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. 6:51I am the living
bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live
forever. Yes, the bread which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the
world."
6:52The
Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, "How can this man give
us his flesh to eat?"
6:53Jesus
therefore said to them, "Most assuredly I tell
you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t
have life in yourselves. 6:54He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life,
and I will raise him up at the last day. 6:55For my flesh is
food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 6:56He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I
in him. 6:57As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the
Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me. 6:58This is the bread
which came down out of heaven — not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He
who eats this bread will live forever." 6:59These things he said in the synagogue, as
he taught in Capernaum.
6:60Therefore
many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying!
Who can hear it?"
6:61But
Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble? 6:62What if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he
was before? 6:63It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing.
The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life. 6:64But there are some
of you who don’t believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who
they were who didn’t believe, and who it was who would betray him. 6:65He said, "For
this cause have I said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to
him by my Father."
6:66At
this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. 6:67Jesus said therefore to the twelve, "You don’t also want to go away, do you?"
6:68Simon
Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of
eternal life. 6:69We have come to believe
and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
6:70He
answered them, "Didn’t I choose you, the twelve,
and one of you is a devil?" 6:71Now
he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was he who would betray
him, being one of the twelve.
Those The Father Gives To
Yah'shuah Go To Yah'shuah
Are we like the Jews in Capernaum who see Yah'shuah but do not believe him and therefore do not go to him? Doesn't 6:37 show that those whom the Father gives to Yah'shuah go to Yah'shuah? Isn't it therefore implied that those whom the Father gives to Yah'shuah are those who believe Yah'shuah, and that those whom the Father has not given to Yah'shuah do not believe Yah'shuah? Has the Father given you to Yah'shuah? Do you believe Yah'shuah?
No One Goes To Yah'shuah
Unless Drawn By The Father
Don't Yah'shuah's words in 6:44-45 show that no one can go to him unless the Father draws that one to him? Don't Yah'shuah's words also show that those who go to him are those who have learned of the Father, after having heard from him? Don't Yah'shuah's words imply that if one has not learned of the Father, after having heard from him, that one cannot go to Yah'shuah? Have you heard from the Father? Have you learned of the Father after having heard from him? Have you gone to Yah'shuah?
Many Of Yah'shuah's
Disciples Do Not Believe His Words
Isn't it the case, as seen from 6:60-66, that many of Yah'shuah's disciples found his words hard to bear and did not believe him or his words? Didn't many of Yah'shuah's disciples stumble in unbelief at Yah'shuah's words? Isn't it the case that just because a person appears for a time to be a disciple of Yah'shuah he has not necessarily gone to Yah'shuah? For even though these disciples of Yah'shuah who stumbled at his word had appeared to be his disciples, he - Yah'shuah - did not consider them as having gone to him? For the Father had not drawn them to Yah'shuah? Isn't it also the case that just because a person appears for a time to be a disciple of Yah'shuah it should not be concluded that the Father drew that one to Yah'shuah? For not all who associate themselves with Yah'shuah for a season have been drawn to him by the Father?
Those Truly Drawn By The
Father To Yah'shuah
Then who are the ones truly drawn by the Father to Yah'shuah? Aren't these, as Yah'shuah shows in 6:44-45, those who have heard from the Father, have been taught by him and have learned of him? In other words, isn't it the case that unless one has heard from the Father, been taught by him and learned of him, one is not drawn by the Father to Yah'shuah?
Two Different Groups Of
People Drawn By Yah'shuah
Isn't it also clear that there are two groups of people drawn to Yah'shuah, those drawn by the Father and those not drawn by the Father? Isn't it also clear that those drawn to Yah'shuah but not drawn by the Father do not believe Yah'shuah's words? For even though they associate with Yah'shuah they have not really gone to Yah'shuah? If such associate with Yah'shuah for a period of time, but have not really gone to Yah'shuah, why do they associate with Yah'shuah? Do they have their own separate interest in associating with Yah'shuah even though they have not truly gone to him?
Yah'shuah's Word Eventually
Separates His Disciples Into Two Groups
Isn't it also the case that a time eventually comes that Yah'shuah's word separates between those calling themselves his disciples into two groups? One group of those who continue to believe Yah'shuah's word and the other group of those who stumble at his word, disbelieve it, and forsake associating with him? Isn't it therefore the case that at any given point in time not all who call themselves Yah'shuah's disciples have truly gone to him, with his disciples being made up of both true and false disciples?
Are you a true disciple of Yah'shuah? Are you a false disciple of Yah'shuah?
False Disciples Of
Yah'shuah Believe That He Is The Christ
John 8:30-36 reads,
8:30As
he spoke these things, many believed in him. 8:31Jesus
therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, "If
you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. 8:32You will know the truth, and the truth will make you
free."
8:33They
answered him, "We are Abraham’s seed, and have never yet been in bondage
to anyone. How do you say, ‘You will be made free?’"
8:34Jesus
answered them, "Most assuredly I tell you,
everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin. 8:35A bondservant
doesn’t live in the house forever. A son remains forever. 8:36If therefore the
Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.
Didn't Yah'shuah imply in 8:30-31 that among those who believe in him, those who believe that he is the Christ, there are both true and false disciples? Implying that even false disciples believe that he Yah'shuah is indeed the Christ?
Distinction Between True
And False Disciples Of Yah'shuah
Didn't Yah'shuah also show that what distinguishes between his true and false disciples is their conduct after the passage of time? For his true disciples remain in his word while the false ones do not, falling away?
Are you a disciple of Yah'shuah? How long have you been a disciple of Yah'shuah? Are you still remaining in Yah'shuah's word or have you fallen away from it? Are you a true disciple of Yah'shuah or a false one, having abandoned Yah'shuah's word?
The Devil's Children And
Disciples
John 8:42-47 reads,
8:42Therefore
Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you
would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For neither have I come
of myself, but he sent me. 8:43Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my
word. 8:44You are of your Father, the devil, and you want to do the
desires of your father. He was a murderer
from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth
in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the
father of it. 8:45But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me. 8:46Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why
do you not believe me? 8:47He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you
don’t hear, because you are not of God."
Isn't it the case that those who do not receive and believe Yah'shuah's word do not belong to Yahweh but belong to the devil? Isn't it the case that among those calling themselves Yah'shuah's disciples, but who do not remain in his word, are the devil's children and disciples? Isn't it the case that Yah'shuah's false disciples are indeed the devil's children and disciples? Isn't it the case that those who profess to be Yah'shuah's disciples include both Yah'shuah's true disciples, Yahweh's children, and the devil's disciples, the devil's children?
Distinguishing Between
Yah'shuah's Disciples And The Devil's Children
How may one distinguish between Yah'shuah's true disciples and the devil's children assembling together with Yah'shuah's true disciples? Isn't it by noting those who receive and believe Yah'shuah's word? For those who truly belong to Yah'shuah remain in his word while those who do not belong to him stumble on account of it and fall away from it?
Are you a true disciple of Yah'shuah, a child of Yahweh the Father? Or are you a child of the devil?
The Example Of The Blind
Person Healed By Yah'shuah
John 9:35-41 reads,
9:35Jesus
heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"
9:36He
answered, "Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?"
9:37Jesus
said to him, "You have both seen him, and it is he
who speaks with you."
9:38He
said, "Lord, I believe!" and he worshiped him.
9:39Jesus
said, "I came into this world for judgment, that
those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind."
9:40Those
of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, "Are
we also blind?"
9:41Jesus
said to them, "If you were blind, you would
have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.
Shouldn't we follow the example of the blind person whom Yah'shuah healed? Such that after his healing he both saw and believed Yah'shuah and worshipped him?
Guilt Borne By Professing
Visionaries
Doesn't 9:40-41 show that there are those who profess to understand scriptural matters and thereby having spiritual vision? Doesn't Yah'shuah show that those who profess to have vision, but do not believe him and go to him, are not cleared of their guilt of not believing him and going to him?
Doesn't 9:41 show that a spiritually blind person is not condemned for acting out of his blindness? In that because of his blindness he does not see Yah'shuah and does not go to him? On the other hand, isn't it the case that those who indeed recognise that Yah'shuah is the Christ, yet do not believe him and go to him, are rendered guilty, on account of not following Yahweh's word?
Do you recognise Yah'shuah as the Messiah? Do you believe him? Have you gone to him? Are you remaining in his word?
John 10:22-39 reads,
10:22It
was the Feast of the Dedication at
10:25Jesus
answered them, "I told you, and you don’t
believe. The works that I do in my Father’s
name, these testify about me. 10:26But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as
I told you. 10:27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 10:28I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no
one will snatch them out of my hand. 10:29My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No
one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand. 10:30I and the Father
are one."
10:31Therefore
Jews took up stones again to stone him. 10:32Jesus
answered them, "I have shown you many good works
from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?"
10:33The
Jews answered him, "We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy:
because you, being a man, make yourself God."
10:34Jesus
answered them, "Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I
said, you are gods?’ 10:35If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the
Scripture can’t be broken), 10:36Do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into
the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’ 10:37If I don’t do the
works of my Father, don’t believe me. 10:38But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the
works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the
Father."
10:39They
sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.
Doesn't Yah'shuah reiterate in 10:26-27 that those who do not believe him are those who do not belong to him? And that those who believe him indeed follow him and he in turn knows them?
How were the Jews to know whether the works that Yah'shuah did were the Father's works or not, seeing that Yah'shuah's comments in 10:37 imply that they needed to know what constituted the Father's works to assess Yah'shuah? Wasn't it from their understanding and belief of the writings of Moses, seeing that Yah'shuah said that one had to believe Moses' writings in order to believe Yah'shuah?
Do you believe Moses' writings? Do you believe Yah'shuah?
Follow Martha's Example Of Believing
Yah'shuah
John 11:11-45 reads,
11:11He
said these things, and after that, he said to them, "Our
friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out
of sleep."
11:12The
disciples therefore said, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will
recover."
11:13Now
Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in
sleep. 11:14So Jesus said to them
plainly then, "Lazarus is dead. 11:15I am glad for your
sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s go to
him."
11:16Thomas
therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his
fellow disciples, "Let’s go also, that we may die with him."
11:17So
when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already. 11:18Now
11:24Martha
said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the
last day."
11:25Jesus
said to her, "I am the resurrection and the
life. He who believes in me, though he die, yet will he live. 11:26Whoever lives and
believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"
11:27She
said to him, "Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the
Christ, God’s Son, he who comes into the world."
11:28When
she had said this, she went away, and called Mary, her sister, secretly,
saying, "The Teacher is here, and is calling you."
11:29She,
when she heard this, arose quickly, and went to him. 11:30Now Jesus had not yet come into the
village, but was in the place where Martha met him. 11:31Then the Jews who were with her in the
house, and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and
went out, followed her, saying, "She is going to the tomb to weep
there." 11:32Mary therefore,
when she came to where Jesus was, and saw him, fell down at his feet, saying to
him, "Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have
died."
11:33When
Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he
groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, 11:34and
said, "Where have you laid him?"
They told him, "Lord, come and see."
11:35Jesus
wept.
11:36The
Jews therefore said, "See how much affection he had for him!" 11:37Some of them said, "Couldn’t this
man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also caused that this man
wouldn’t die?"
11:38Jesus
therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and
a stone lay against it. 11:39Jesus
said, "Take away the stone."
Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said
to him, "Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead
four days."
11:40Jesus
said to her, "Didn’t I tell you that if you
believed, you would see God’s glory?"
11:41So
they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus
lifted up his eyes, and said, "Father, I thank you
that you listened to me. 11:42I know that you always listen to me, but because of the
multitude that stands around I said this, that they may believe that you sent
me." 11:43When he had
said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus,
come out!"
11:44He
who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was
wrapped around with a cloth.
Jesus said to them, "Free
him, and let him go."
11:45Therefore
many of the Jews, who came to Mary and saw that which Jesus did, believed in
him.
Shouldn't we follow Martha's example, of believing Yah'shuah? And for so believing Yah'shuah, won't we also see Yahweh's glory?
Why Many Do Not Believe
Yah'shuah
John 12:37-40 reads,
12:37But
though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn’t believe in him, 12:38that the word of Isaiah the prophet might
be fulfilled, which he spoke,
"Lord, who has believed our report?
To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"
12:39For
this cause they couldn’t believe, for Isaiah said again,
12:40"He
has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart,
Lest they should see with their eyes,
And perceive with their heart,
And would turn,
And I would heal them."
Do you believe Yah'shuah? Are your eyes blind? Is your heart hardened? Or do you see with your eyes and perceive with your heart? Have you turned to Yahweh that he heals you? Has Yahweh healed you?
John 12:44-50 reads,
12:44Jesus
cried out and said, "Whoever believes in me,
believes not in me, but in him who sent me. 12:45He who sees me sees him who
sent me. 12:46I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes
in me may not remain in the darkness. 12:47If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t
judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. 12:48He who rejects me,
and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke,
the same will judge him in the last day. 12:49For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he
gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. 12:50I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things
therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak."
Yah'shuah Speaks The
Father's Words
John 14:9-14 reads,
14:9Jesus
said to him, "Have I been with you such a long
time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father.
How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’ 14:10Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in
me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who
lives in me does his works. 14:11Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or
else believe me for the very works’ sake. 14:12Most assuredly I
tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and
greater works than these will he do; because I am going to my Father. 14:13Whatever you will
ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14:14If you will ask
anything in my name, I will do it.
Even True Disciples Of
Yah'shuah Sometimes Stumble
John 16:26-33 reads,
16:26In that day you will ask in my name; and I don’t say to you,
that I will pray to the Father for you, 16:27for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved
me, and have believed that I came forth from God. 16:28I came out from
the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to
the Father."
16:29His
disciples said to him, "Behold, now you speak plainly, and speak no
figures of speech. 16:30Now we know
that you know all things, and don’t need for anyone to question you. By this we
believe that you came forth from God."
16:31Jesus
answered them, "Do you now believe? 16:32Behold, the time
comes, yes, has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own
place, and will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with
me. 16:33I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace.
In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the
world."
Isn't it the case that even though Yah'shuah's disciples believe him, they sometimes stumble on account of worldly oppression? Isn't it the case that there are times when Yah'shuah's disciples are not sufficiently strong to overcome the world?
Nevertheless, isn't it the case that they should follow their master's example, seeing that Yah'shuah overcame the world? Shouldn't Yah'shuah's disciples strive to overcome the world and not stumble on account of worldly oppression?
Yah'shuah's True Disciples
Receive His Words
John 17:6-9 reads,
17:6I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out
of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept
your word. 17:7Now they have known that all things whatever you have given
me are from you, 17:8for the words which you have given me I have given to
them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came forth from you, and
they believed that you sent me. 17:9I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those
whom you have given me, for they are yours.
Blessed Are Those Who
Believe Without Having Seen
John 20:24-29 reads,
20:24But
Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, wasn’t with them when Jesus came. 20:25The other disciples therefore said to him,
"We have seen the Lord!"
But he said to them, "Unless I see in
his hands the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not
believe."
20:26After
eight days again his disciples were inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came,
the doors being locked, and stood in the midst, and said, "Peace be to you." 20:27Then he said to Thomas, "Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your
hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be unbelieving, but believing."
20:28Thomas
answered him, "My Lord and my God!"
20:29Jesus
said to him, "Because you have seen me, you
have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed."
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